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12/10/2013

Proud Mother Of Two: Updated

We apologize for missing until now the roaring debate over the possible career advantages of having only one child ignited by the book One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One. The Atlantic headlined its excerpt from the book “The Secret to Being Both a Successful Writer and a Mother: Have Just One Kid.” Temporarily Impressed by the logic of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Alice Walker's observation, “With one you can move, with more than one you’re a sitting duck,” we decided the one-child career advantage hypothesis was goofy enough to waste three or four minutes testing in the context of well-known successful mother-lawyers. (And yes, we acknowledge the unfairness of not subjecting fathers to the same hypothesis.) The results do not support the hypothesis:

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Proud Mother Of Two: Updated

We apologize for missing until now the roaring debate over the possible career advantages of having only one child ignited by the book One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One. The Atlantic headlined its excerpt from the book “The Secret to Being Both a Successful Writer and a Mother: Have Just One Kid.” Temporarily Impressed by the logic of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Alice Walker's observation, “With one you can move, with more than one you’re a sitting duck,” we decided the one-child career advantage hypothesis was goofy enough to waste three or four minutes testing in the context of well-known successful mother-lawyers. (And yes, we acknowledge the unfairness of not subjecting fathers to the same hypothesis.) The results do not support the hypothesis: